We are excited to share a beta release of the Wayback Machine featuring Site Search

You can now discover web sites, many which are no longer available via the "live web," by entering terms you think might be associated with those sites. Of course you can also still enter the URLs of site. Please give this new service a try: web-beta.archive.org. We would love your feedback so don't be shy! ... http://www.archive.org ... 101116

Dear Internet Archive Supporter

You’ve come to us seeking the facts.
To access to good and reliable information. Now we come to you. We need your help. Maybe now more than ever.

For those of us who believe that facts matter, this year has been a nightmare. Fake news is poisoning the internet and poisoning our minds.

We need to guarantee access to true information, to published information, to historically accurate information that is increasingly important, but in short supply. We need libraries that can be a trusted source for fact checkers, scholars and citizens.

When I founded the Internet Archive twenty years ago, people thought I was crazy. They didn’t think the stuff on the Web was worth saving. I made the Internet Archive a nonprofit because I wanted it to be a library built on trust. The Web belongs to all of us. Our mission is to provide everyone with access to knowledge. Forever.

Today, the Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs one of the top-250 websites in the world. We could sell ads, but to me that doesn’t feel right. We take your privacy very seriously, so we don’t even collect your IP address. But we still need to pay for the increasing costs of servers, staff and rent.

You may not know this, but your support fueled the work of journalists who used our Political TV Ad Archive in their fact-checking of candidates’ claims.

It keeps the Wayback Machine going, saving 750 million Web pages each week, so no one will ever be able to change the past just because there is no digital record of it.

Recently, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said “the Wayback Machine, it’s a national treasure, it’s an international treasure...it’s always the first place you go.”
And now we are making the Wayback Machine even better, by adding web site search for the first time.

We can do all of this because of you. You keep us going and growing.

If the Internet Archive continues to be useful to you, please take a minute to donate $50, $75, $100 or whatever you can. During this month, a generous supporter will match your donation, dollar-for-dollar.
For every dollar you donate, the Internet Archive will receive $2.
Help us keep improving for another year. I promise you—It will be money well spent.